The human faculty to speak has evolved, so has been argued, for communicating with
others and for engaging in social interactions. Hence the human cognitive system should be …

Handwriting has been largely replaced by typing in modern days, leading to a decline in
handwriting literacy (eg, character amnesia), especially in non-alphabetic scripts such as …

In context-driven word production, picture naming is faster following constrained than neutral
sentential contexts (eg,“The farmer milked the…[picture]” vs.“The child drew a…[picture]” …

In the past few decades, Chinese speakers have suffered from difficulties in handwriting,
which include tip-of-the-pen (TOP) states (knowing a character but failing to fully handwrite …

Numerous studies demonstrate that the production of words is delayed when speakers
process in temporal proximity semantically related words. Yet the experimental settings …

Cognitive ageing is often associated with slower lexical processing, which might influence
both language production and comprehension. Words are typically used in context, which …

In context-driven picture naming studies, pictures are named faster following constraining
(eg," The leaves fall from the”, picture: TREE) relative to nonconstraining (eg,“The family …

The spoken word production process includes four identifiable stages: conceptualization,
lexical selection, form encoding, and articulation. This dissertation studies the spoken word …